Latest content added for The Portal to Texas History Collection: A. F. Weaver Collectionhttp://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/collections/AFWC/browse/?fq=untl_decade:1980-1989&fq=untl_institution:BDPL2008-06-01T19:52:15-05:00UNT LibrariesThis is a custom feed for browsing The Portal to Texas History Collection: A. F. Weaver Collection[A Centennial Booklet of First Baptist Church]2008-06-01T19:52:15-05:00http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth38091/<p><a href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth38091/"><img alt="[A Centennial Booklet of First Baptist Church]" title="[A Centennial Booklet of First Baptist Church]" src="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth38091/thumbnail/"/></a></p><p>A booklet of twenty pages, celebrating centennial anniversary of First Baptist Church of Mineral Wells, October 10, 1982, it indicates that the Reverend Bobby E. Moore was pastor at the time.
The booklet is paperback and vanilla-colored. The text is in brown sans-serif. The interior text is in script.</p>[Downtown Mineral Wells, 3 of 3: The 100 Block]2007-11-29T18:42:25-06:00http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29837/<p><a href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29837/"><img alt="[Downtown Mineral Wells, 3 of 3: The 100 Block]" title="[Downtown Mineral Wells, 3 of 3: The 100 Block]" src="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29837/thumbnail/"/></a></p><p>This photograph shows downtown Mineral Wells. The dominant building is Mineral Wells Office Supply (formerly Lattner Funeral Home), followed by R.P.'s Western Outlet; next door: Jann's Boutique; next, Jann's Fashions. Next is Hill's Style Shoppe.</p>[Downtown Mineral Wells: 1 of 3]2007-11-29T18:42:24-06:00http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29839/<p><a href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29839/"><img alt="[Downtown Mineral Wells: 1 of 3]" title="[Downtown Mineral Wells: 1 of 3]" src="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29839/thumbnail/"/></a></p><p>This photograph of downtown Mineral Wells was taken looking north on Oak Avenue (US Highway 281) from SE 1st Street (US Highway 180 E). The visible buildings are: (on the left), Hill's Ladies' Apparel, Cole's House of Flowers, (at the intersecting street, [Hubbard Street--US Hwy. 180 W]), and George's Men's Store. Lynch Plaza and a parking lot are on the right, with the Texas Historical Commission marker on the wall in the lower right-hand corner commemorating the first mineral-water well in the City. In the background, the First State Bank can also be seen (also on the intersecting Hubbard Street, US Highway 180 W.)</p>[Downtown Mineral Wells, 2 of 3: A Different View]2007-11-29T18:42:24-06:00http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29838/<p><a href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29838/"><img alt="[Downtown Mineral Wells, 2 of 3: A Different View]" title="[Downtown Mineral Wells, 2 of 3: A Different View]" src="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29838/thumbnail/"/></a></p><p>This photograph of downtown Mineral Wells shows (left to right): Hill's Ladies' Apparel; Cole's House of flowers; (Intersecting street): George's Man's Shop; the Professional Building (formerly the Texas Theater); Poston's Dry Goods;Palace Saloon; Marsden's Shoe Store (former Gem theater). The Crazy Hotel is visible in the background.</p>[Lynch Plaza , 1 of 3]2007-11-29T18:42:10-06:00http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29841/<p><a href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29841/"><img alt="[Lynch Plaza , 1 of 3]" title="[Lynch Plaza , 1 of 3]" src="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29841/thumbnail/"/></a></p><p>This photograph of Lynch Plaza and The First State Bank (now Home Health in 2008) was taken from the 100 block of South Oak Street. The Gentleman's Closet is next to the bank (The store is vacant as of 2008). The Baker Hotel can be seen above Lynch Plaza, at the corner of E. Hubbard and S. Oak Streets.</p>[A Corner of Oak Avenue and East Hubbard Street]2007-11-29T18:41:26-06:00http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29851/<p><a href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29851/"><img alt="[A Corner of Oak Avenue and East Hubbard Street]" title="[A Corner of Oak Avenue and East Hubbard Street]" src="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29851/thumbnail/"/></a></p><p>This picture shows the northeast corner of the intersection of Hubbard Street (US Hwy. 180) and Oak Avenue (US Hwy. 281), the center of downtown Mineral Wells. In this picture are The First State Bank, The Gentleman's Closet, and Lorene's Fabrics. The First State Bank began at this location, with Leon Cowan as president and Tony Street and Leon Groves as vice-presidents. The City National Bank was once located here, but moved to their new location at 1900 E. Hubbard Street. The Gentleman's Closet and Lorene's Fabrics occupied a newly-remodeled building to the right (east) of the bank. George's Men's Shop was one of the businesses in the building across Oak Avenue to the left and west of the First State Bank.</p>[First State Bank and The Gentlemen's Closet]2007-11-29T18:41:14-06:00http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29852/<p><a href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29852/"><img alt="[First State Bank and The Gentlemen's Closet]" title="[First State Bank and The Gentlemen's Closet]" src="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29852/thumbnail/"/></a></p><p>This photograph has been tentatively dated to the 1980's. Notice the mailbox at the corner--a rarity in Mineral Wells at the present [2013] time. The street appears to be devoid of markings, but traffic bumps are visible--a provision no longer [2013] in effect for this street.
The picture shows the First State Bank, which began business at the southwest corner of the 100 block of East Hubbard with a drive-in teller and parking lot at the back of the bank. The First State Bank president was Leon Cowan; vice-presidents were Tony Street and Leon Groves. The First State Bank occupied the northeast corner of N. Oak Avenue and E. Hubbard Streets after The City National Bank (now First Financial Bank) moved from here to its current [2008] location at 1900 W. Hubbard Street. First State Bank is now [2008] located at 101 SE 1st Avenue.
The building now [2013] houses the offices for the Mineral Wells Hospice.
The Gentleman's Closet, next door, was a man's haberdashery. It was a remodeled store that had been occupied by a number of previous businesses. It is presently [2013] vacant.</p>[Cole's House of Flowers]2007-11-29T18:41:10-06:00http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29854/<p><a href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29854/"><img alt="[Cole's House of Flowers]" title="[Cole's House of Flowers]" src="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29854/thumbnail/"/></a></p><p>Cole's House of Flowers was built on this location in 1980, after a fire had destroyed the Davidson Hardware and the Damron Hotel buildings in 1975.</p>[A Back View of Businesses on the West Side of 100 Block and S. Oak]2007-11-29T18:40:56-06:00http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29856/<p><a href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29856/"><img alt="[A Back View of Businesses on the West Side of 100 Block and S. Oak]" title="[A Back View of Businesses on the West Side of 100 Block and S. Oak]" src="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29856/thumbnail/"/></a></p><p>Businesses are shown here at the southwest corner of West Hubbard Street and South Oak Avenue: The location of the original Colonial Hotel. (It was originally built in 1906 by J.T. Holt for his second wife who would not live in the country, and it was renamed the Damron Hotel about 1917 when Agnew and Bessie Damron traded a ranch for it. The hotel burned in 1975.)
The small white building in the left middle foreground is a back view of Cole's House of Flowers (where Davidson's Hardware also burned in the Damron Hotel fire), next to it is Hill's Style Shoppe and Mineral Wells Office Supply. The vacant lot in the foreground is the location of the former Damron hotel.
At the far left edge of the picture, to the east and across Oak Avenue, is Lynch Plaza which was built on the site of the former Oxford Hotel, that burned in 1983, along with the First National Bank. Lynch Plaza is named for J.A. Lynch, Mineral Wells' founder. who had a well drilled at this location in 1880, and discovered the source of mineral water that made Mineral Wells the most popular health spa in the nation at the turn of the twentieth century. A Texas Historical Commission Marker commemorating the discovery-well is embedded in a brick wall surrounding the parking lot of Lynch Plaza. Obscurely in middle distance, at the right edge of the picture, south and across SW 1st Street, are the offices of the Palo Pinto County Abstract Company and those of the City of Mineral Wells.</p>[The 100 Block of West Hubbard]2007-11-29T18:40:56-06:00http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29855/<p><a href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29855/"><img alt="[The 100 Block of West Hubbard]" title="[The 100 Block of West Hubbard]" src="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29855/thumbnail/"/></a></p><p>This picture is an illustration of the south side of the 100 block of West Hubbard Street, looking southeast. The north side (and back view) of Cole's Florist and Hill's Style Shop can be seen at the center of the picture. Lynch Plaza, the darker brick building, is in the left middle background.
Oak Avenue (U.S. Highway 281) extends north-south between Cole's House of Flowers and Lynch Plaza. Cole's occupies the site of the former Davidson Hardware, which burned along with the Damron Hotel in 1975.
Lynch Plaza, the site of the mineral-water discovery well, was built on the site where the former Oxford Hotel burned in 1983. The parking lot seen in the right foreground of the picture was the site of the Damron Hotel.</p>